Word: spaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bernet Galleries, fabulously wealthy Belgian Baron Cassel van Doom stumped pompously to every important sale, solemnly focused a pair of high-powered binoculars on everything that reached the auction block. At Gimbels 84-year-old Spanish Millionaire José Lazaro Galdeano, his loud necktie half hidden by a grey spade beard, bought right & left, walked off with one of the season's most expensive buys ($26,742): François Boucher's L'Amour, reputedly posed by Mme. de Pompadour...
...National Congress Party Working Committee to discuss ways of continuing to protest British rule. Among those present: huge, bearded Abdul Gaffar Khan, a Moslem who spends his life preaching Hindu Gandhi's nonviolence principles to the fierce Pathans of the Northwest Frontier Province; the Congress Party's spade-bearded Moslem President, Maulana Abdulkalam Azad, who gesticulates like a French prefect; the poetess and veteran Congresswoman, Madame Sarojini Naidu, Gandhi's principal female disciple, who calls him Mickey Mouse; India's second-best-known citizen, handsome, socialistic Jawaharlal Nehru...
...Nelson Rockefeller's Office for the Coordination of Inter-American Affairs, which supplies programs and suggestions. For instance, Dr. Julio Barata, Brazilian radio chief (TIME, March 30), now makes a five-minute broadcast daily from Manhattan in which he comments on U.S. news for Brazilian listeners, calls a spade a spade...
Skippers of the dumpy mail boats which ply between Fishguard, Wales and Rosslare, Eire are very well acquainted with Tuskar Rock, some seven miles off the latter port. Tuskar means peat spade, but in the old days Tuskar Rock dug only graves in the water. Now Tuskar Light is a 110-foot beacon visible all the way from Wales...
...citizens. Street-to-street plans were laid. Old women, small children and useless people were evacuated. "The breath of the front is strongly felt here," wrote Tass, official news agency. "A new line of defenses is being constructed. . . . People of the most varied professions have taken to the spade-women, weavers, streetcar drivers, students and teachers." Moscow changed within a week from capital into fortress...